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What can you find in the South Feminist Knowledge Hub?

Over the first year, the South Feminist Knowledge Hub has grown from the ground – into a vibrant, multilingual, multithematic tapestry of Southern feminist knowledge memory with more than 1600 resources in Arabic, French, English, Portuguese, and Spanish. 

In the Hub, you’ll find:

• Essays, articles, opinion pieces, and research from Southern feminist thinkers dismantling patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism.
  
• Oral histories and podcasts grounded in ancestral memory and grassroots organising.
  
• Poetry, zines, protest songs, and comics about resistance, liberation and radical feminist imaginations.
  
• Pedagogies and toolkits rooted in care, healing, justice, and collective resistance.
  
• Theory – sharp, critical inquiries and pedagogies of feminist resistance – that helps us name, explain and dismantle systems of oppression.
  
• Know-how from the grassroots: lived experiences and autobiographical writings of Southern feminists, oral histories of anti-colonial resistance, practices and rituals of radical care and healing passed down through generations. 

These are some of the many interconnected threads you can explore in the Knowledge Hub – each a reflection of the urgency, depth and diversity of South feminist knowledge(s). More than being just a digital resource, these works of Southern feminists affirm that knowledge is collective, lived, and political – not extracted or necessarily institutional. 

New to the Knowledge Hub? Here’s a Quick Tour! 

If it’s your first time visiting the Hub, we’re offering introductory videos in Spanish, Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese to help you explore with ease. 

You can search by keyword, region, theme, language, or format – and also contribute resources in 5 languages!

Watch the how-to-use video guides and start exploring: Spanish, English, Portuguese, Arabic, French.

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The South Feminist Knowledge Hub anniversary campaign is an opportunity to celebrate the richness of Southern feminist knowledge production that archives, reveals, and resists. Over the upcoming weeks, we will spotlight theories and analyses from the Knowledge Hub. The campaign is an invitation to dive into these pieces and many more that shift narratives and center ways of knowing from the South.

Decolonial and Anticolonial Feminisms and the Politics of Power, Labour and Embodied Resistance 

Here are some authors who critically interrogate how colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism shape systems of oppression – through the regulation of our bodies, sexuality, labour, and knowledge:

1. Françoise Vergès on decolonial feminism, racial capitalism, and the politics of “cleaning the world”.
   
2. Sylvia Tamale on decolonisation, Afrofeminism, and the collision between sexuality, power, and politics.
   
3. Rita Segato on decolonial methodologies and vocabulary, and the intersections of coloniality, gender, power, and violence.
   
4. Shubha Chacko on tools to unpack complex ideas like “modernity” and reimagining the agency of Southern women.
   
5. Yuderkys Espinosa on Afro-Carribean resistance through poetry – an epistemic challenge to Western modernity.
   
6. Katie Natanelle, Canwal Hamid, and Amal Khalaf‘s dialogue across their positions within extractive institutions, with the aim of imagining and implementing an anti-colonial feminist practice through embodied experience and collaborative action.
   
7. Ailton Krenak, Helena Silvestre, and Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s analyses of  systems vs. anti-systems, capitalism, colonialism, democracy.

Feminist Political Economy – Climate Justice, Care and Technology

Some powerful works that advance climate justice through intersectional analyses of colonialism, Indigenous knowledge and practices, care, and labour:

1. Akina Mama wa Afrika and Voices for Just Climate Action’s grounded analysis informing and shaping the agenda around ensuring gender justice in climate action in Africa and the Global South.
   
2. Sanam Anim’s offering on feminist action on climate, care, and economic justice.
   
3. Dr. Farhana Sultana on how legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism co-produce and exacerbate the climate crisis.
   
4. Luca Delbene Lezama’s offering of a path to a different approach to human development centering meaningful lives in a future feminist, based on respect for the human, nature and livelihoods of workers.
   
5. Helena Silvestre on transnational solidarity between feminists and defenders of the territory.
   
6. Michelle Volpin on the role that Indigenous women from the Americas have had in introducing climate justice from an indigenous as perspective and as a horizon into the global debate.

Here are some feminist offerings politicising and reclaiming care through collective and transformative practices in contexts of neoliberalism and austerity:

1. Juliana Martínez Franzoni on navigating and politicising care work amid austerity policies.
   
2. Jayati Ghosh’s critiques of neoliberalism, global financial institutions, inequality and development, and unpaid and care work.
   
3. The Care Collective’s sealing critiques of global “carelessness,” emphasising neoliberalism’s role in undermining care infrastructures.
   
4. Akina Mama wa Afrika and the GBV Prevention Network’s compilation of a feminist guide to radical care featuring stories of feminist activists serving underserved communities, and building on ancestral legacies.
   
5. Lina Abou Habib’s paper on feminist perspectives of care work in the MENA Region.
   
6. Maria Teresa Braga Bizarria, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha, Isabella Sánchez-Bolívar on the praxis of care and (co)becoming.

Feminist analyses of digital economies and how tech systems reinforce racial, gendered, and labour inequalities in the South:

1. Islam Al Khatib’s analysis of surveillance tools – from facial recognition to predictive policing – as instruments of gendered and racial control.
   
2. Kruskaya Hidalgo’s feminist analysis of the working conditions of platform delivery workers in Latin America.
   
3. Batoul Al Mehdar and Sharon Geeling’s multi-country analysis of gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa.
   
4. Anita Gurumurthy’s feminist perspectives on the digital economy in Asia.

Feminist Resistance in Practice: Voices and Visions From Our Struggles

Here are some powerful contributions from Southern feminists articulating resistance as ways of living, knowing, creating, and thinking – embodied and everyday forms of protest:

1. Adriana Guzmán on community feminism as land-rooted resistance to colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism shaped by Indigenous women’s struggles.
   
2. Claudia Korol on popular feminism(s) as everyday, grassroots resistances rooted in the knowledge and struggles of working class women.
   
3. Lyn Ossome on the pedagogies of feminist resistance in agrarian movements of Africa.
   
4. Ghadeer Malek and Ghaida Moussa on Arab feminist reflections on space, identity, and resistance.
   
5. Bernadette Daou & Yazan Al-Saad’s comic book exploring stories of feminisms in Lebanon.

Stay tuned for an exciting event and more curated resources!